Wu Zhixiang got off the springboard and stretched her body. [Read the latest chapter] These days I have been traveling in sedan chairs and boats, and I am very tired. After crossing Jiangxi, we changed boats and headed all the way to Nanjing.
Although taking a boat is more comfortable than taking a sedan, for the convenience of traveling, all the boats are used. Although the boats in Qiweizhan are as comfortable as possible in terms of structure and layout, no matter how big or small they are, it is still very comfortable to stay in the cabin every day. Suffocated. After finally arriving at the Hangzhou Pier today, he said he had to take a break and regain his composure. Spend a few days in this "paradise on earth".
Wu Zhixiang came to Jiangnan from Guangzhou and was instructed by her father and brother to go to Jiangnan to "build connections". He originally didn't want to leave his comfort zone in Guangzhou and go all the way to the south of the Yangtze River, but it was related to his future - although he had gained a reputation as a scholar through the relationship between his father and brother, he had been eating, drinking and having fun in Guangzhou for the past few years, living a dissolute young man's life. However, as time went by, I became a little tired of it, and I wanted to make progress in my official career.
Now Donglin Party members have great influence both inside and outside the government. If you want to advance to the next level in the court, you must try to make friends with the Donglin Party members. Donglin Party officials have always been very concerned about supporting "young talents".
Jiangnan is the sphere of influence of the Donglin Party. Many important backbones of the Donglin Party in the past, including several of the Seven Gentlemen who were persecuted to death by Wei Zhongxian, were from Southern Zhili and Zhejiang. Many scholars who had never served as officials and retired Donglin Party officials also gathered here.
As long as you can manage to make friends with these people and obtain their support, it will be of great help to your success in becoming an official.
To this end, he brought a large number of gifts with him; half were various local products from Guangdong, and the other half were various foreign goods, most of which were novel "Australian goods." He got these goods by relying on his reputation and went through Pei Lixiu's route. Many of them are rare items that are in short supply in the Guangzhou market. If Wu Zhixiang hadn't tipped off the Zihao brand in the first place, he might not have been able to do anything. Get this much at once.
Because Australian products in Guangzhou have gone through a gap period that lasted for more than half a year, Australian products are like drizzle in the market, and they are sold out as soon as they come out. Items such as small glass mirrors, glassware, Australian jewelry, and cosmetics that were not uncommon in the past and could be bought for just a small amount of money now require a reservation before you can pick them up.
Although Wu Zhixiang is a playboy, he is a child of officials. If he were not an uncultured, frivolous and arrogant "second generation ancestor", he would be far smarter than ordinary people in terms of human relations and sophistication. Although his father and brother have been officials for many years and have a lot of money, they are not powerful "big men" and are not as powerful as ordinary "big gentry" in the countryside. To complete the imperial examination, it cannot be accomplished by just visiting a few "seniors" and sending some money.
Fraud in examinations is a very risky matter in any dynasty. Once exposed, it will be a big prison. However, fraud in the examination room is equally rampant in every dynasty and every generation. High risks make examination fraud more hidden and more shady.
If there is no suitable person to cite it, even if you want to send money, there will be no place to send it, or it will simply be stuffed into a dog hole.
The Wu family is not from Jiangnan, and they don't have many connections in Jiangnan that they can use. How to find the right person to help her connect has become a major problem for Wu Zhixiang.
There was already a sedan chair waiting by the Gongchen Bridge. Wu Zhixiang's journey from Guangzhou to Hangzhou was all arranged by Qiwei. Although there are no relatives or friends here in Hangzhou, Qiwei has already rented a small guest house in a temple by the West Lake through his connections. The arrangements were very thoughtful.
Wu Zhixiang got on the sedan and headed all the way to the city.
Wu Zhixiang's arrival was immediately reported to Zhao Yingong's desk through Qiwei's channels. Wu Zhixiang was included in the "watch list" of the Foreign Intelligence Service because of his actions during last year's counter-encirclement and suppression campaign.
Those included in the "watch list" are mostly Ming Dynasty gentry and rich people who are friendly to the Cross-Travel Group and have certain utilization value. They are not yet "collaborators" with a close chain of interests such as Li Luoyou and Gao Ju, but in many aspects they have shown a friendly attitude towards "Australians" and are willing to cooperate with the Senate.
Wu Zhixiang's group of dandy children who often visit Ziming Tower are the most "close". In addition, he acted "resolutely" during the counter-campaign. Taking into account his gentry family background, the Foreign Intelligence Service considered further utilizing his identity and social connections.
The Foreign Intelligence Service secretly investigated his background in Guangzhou. Wu Zhixiang's family is from Wuzhou, Guangxi. They were originally landlords, engaged in industry and commerce, and were wealthy. My father and brother's official positions are not prestigious and they are typical middle-level bureaucrats. He made a lot of money during his several foreign appointments.
Because this family is engaged in industry and commerce and has been operating in the state for a long time, their horizons are much broader than those of ordinary wealthy locals. It is natural for them to be "close to each other" in their political attitude.
Jiang Shan felt that the Wu family could improve their mobility. Therefore, this time Zhixiang went to Nanjing to find out the news about Donglin Party activities, he immediately sent it to Hangzhou.
Jiang Shan did not ask Zhao Yingong to explicitly help Wu Zhixiang, but just told him that there was such an opportunity. As for whether he would take advantage of this opportunity and how to take advantage of it, that was the intelligence agent's own business.
The Foreign Intelligence Service does not clearly specify the activities of intelligence agents. Except for specific tasks in a few cases, it only lists a general work program for intelligence agents stationed abroad. Specific detailed arrangements generally do not impose any restrictions as long as they do not affect the security of the intelligence station itself and do not harm the overall interests.
Do you want to help this young man? Zhao Yingong was in the study reading the daily reports sent by Qiweizhan. This person came here to seek fame. With the current strength of Hangzhou Station, he was unable to help others participate in examination fraud. He might not be able to return it. If you want to get burned, it's better not to get involved.
Thinking of this, he decided to only send people to keep an eye on him for the time being, and decide the next move based on his local activities.
After making up his mind, Zhao Yingong marked the word "observation" on the document with a pencil and put it into the document basket. At noon, Fenghua came to take away these documents and classify them, and then arranged for field personnel to go out to handle them through Sun Wangcai.
Zhao Yingong casually picked up another thick document bag, which he had taken from the Taoist Priest. Zhang Yingchen rarely meets him recently. The "splashing dirty water" operation planned by the Taoist leader has officially begun. Now both Taoist priest and Zhao Yingong have gained a little fame in the local area.
The Chinese Sigao edition of the Old Testament from Lingao Nong was sent to Hangzhou a few days ago. The book was hand-copied by a naturalized scribe - because neither the Big Library, the Religious Affairs Office nor the Lingao Church prepared this book. diffusion. Zhang Yingchen hid in a Taoist temple and secretly read and excerpted "Cannonballs" at night, doing the same job as Bo Yang did back then.
Zhang Yingchen's reputation has become even more prominent since he "combined great medicine" for a certain Jin gentry. Zhao Yingong never understood how the Taoist fooled the gentleman - there must be no "Viagra", Indian oil or Spanish flies in the medical and chemical reserves of the time traveler. He also kept it a secret, but since then Pianquanzi's reputation has skyrocketed. Rich wealthy gentrymen came to invite him one after another. Zhang Yingchen responded to all requests and often visited the houses of Jin gentry. However, he continued to practice medicine in the Taoist temple every week - which further enhanced his reputation.
After opening the document bag, Zhao Yingong flipped through it and found out that it was Quanzi who had obtained the "black material" in the document bag. In the accompanying letter, Zhang Yingchen requested the Hangzhou station to print a batch of pamphlets to be used as a cover to attack the church in Hangzhou.
The Chuan Chuan Group has done this more than once by using dark materials like unveiling posts for propaganda purposes. At the beginning, they carried out psychological warfare in Guangzhou and distributed various pamphlets with remarkable results, so this time Pianquanzi followed the same method.
Zhao Yingong received the latest news; Huang Zhen had returned from Ningbō. It seemed that he was ready to fight to the death. It seemed that he must have the support of the great monk Yuanwu of Tiantong Temple. Zhang, the main force in the Hangzhou Teaching Project, is also active in all directions. It seems that the Hangzhou Teaching Project will break out soon.
Seeing Zhang Yingchen's excited expression, Zhao Yingong couldn't help but worry that although this move of throwing dirty water on triggering the lesson plan in advance had the effect of killing two birds with one stone, if it went too far, the Hangzhou church would be hit hard and it would be incapable of helping. By myself.
With such worries, he quickly processed all the official documents and letters sent to the safe house yesterday. He also locked the materials that needed to be kept secret into the safe, put those that needed to be destroyed directly into the brazier and lit the fire, and watched them turn into ashes - he would never do these things without Fenghua. Although Fenghua received training and appraisal from the General Administration of Political Security.
After coming out of the safe house, Zhao Yingong returned to the inner study where he worked. Merlin is waiting for him here.
His face is covered with dust and his hair is in a fake bun. The net towel covering it was dusty. He looks like a working man.
After spending several months in Jiangnan, Mei Lin realized that he had never lived a life of warm and fragrant soft jade. The long-awaited Nanjing party passed by in a hurry, not to mention the eight beauties of Qinhuai, not even a decent woman had time to look at them. In addition to this trip to Nanjing, I was on a construction site to decorate a house. Not only is he responsible for building the house, but he is also responsible for all interior decoration and interior furnishings. It was impossible for a large amount of furniture and furnishings to be shipped all the way from Lingao. Most of them had to be purchased locally or made to order in Hangzhou. All the tasks of drawing samples and guiding the craftsmen in their work fell on his head. Because there are so many tasks and the requirements are so complex, custom-made work from outside is always not satisfactory. Mei Lin simply asked Zhao Yingong to recruit some handicraft craftsmen of various colors, and built a wood processing factory on the land of Phoenix Villa specializing in manufacturing furniture, interior decoration and building components. ! .
